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Southern France

George Pepper

BIRTH YEAR 1903
BIRTH PLACE Ottawa, Ontario
DEATH YEAR 1962
DEATH PLACE Toronto, Ontario
MEDIUM Oil on board
DATE 1925
DIMENSIONS 27cm x 21.9cm x 0.3cm
ACCESSION NUMBER FAC 1518
CREDIT LINE Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, the Ottawa Art Gallery. Donated to the City of Ottawa by the Ontario Heritage Foundation
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Loose, thick brushstrokes of paint are used to depict a two-story peach house (building) with blue windows and a terra cotta roof. A figure in a green coat is standing to the left of the rounded doorway. Additional building surround the house on both sides, painted in the same peach, blue and terra cotta colours. The sky in the background is blue and there is a darker peach coloured ground in the foreground with the blue shadow of a tree that is not in the frame of the image.

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